Film king Leonard Ho dies of heart attack

Movie mogul Leonard Ho Kwong-cheong, part of the team that discovered Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, died of a heart attack yesterday aged 72.

Ho co-founded Golden Harvest with Raymond Chow Ting-hsing in 1970 using savings and money borrowed from relatives.

The team tasted success with its first film, The Big Boss, in 1972, which launched Lee's career.

The $386,500 film returned about 500 times its investment, one of the highest returns in the history of movie-making.

In the mid-70s the team discovered young kung fu maestro Jackie Chan.

Ho studied at the Chinese Institute of Journalism in Shanghai and produced more than 500 films during his career.